LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Karen Fairchild of music group Little Big Town arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Karen Fairchild of music group Little Big Town arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Kimberly Schlapman of music group Little Big Town arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Kimberly Schlapman of music group Little Big Town arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 10: Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town perform onstage during the 2012 American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on December 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 10: Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town perform onstage during the 2012 American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on December 10, 2012 in Las

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 10: Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town perform onstage during the 2012 American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on December 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 10: Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town perform onstage during the 2012 American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on December 10,

With last year's release of the album “Tornado,” Little Big Town launched a perfect storm.

Although the quartet enjoyed a decade-plus career and racked up numerous award nominations and a few Top 10 singles, it had not quite made its mark until “Tornado,” which stayed at No. 1 for five weeks. Its first two singles, “Pontoon” and the title cut, became the band's first chart-topping songs.

Accolades followed for Little Big Town, who will perform Sunday in the Majestic Theatre, with David Nail opening.

First came a Country Music Association award for vocal group of the year. Next was a Grammy for country duo/group performance for “Pontoon.” Earlier this month, the band won the Academy of Country Music's awards for vocal group and video of the year, for “Tornado,” a song that women love because of its attitude about second-class relationships.

“Women like to beat their chest a little bit and put a man in their place every now and then,” Kimberly Schlapman told Great American Country. “It's good for a woman.”

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“I see several women in the audience out there stomping their feet and putting their fists in the air,” Phillip Sweet added in the interview. “It's like their power anthem.”

Karen Fairchild said she envisions someone wronged while singing it. “I just like to get up there and think about somebody who doesn't want to take anyone's BS anymore,” she told GAC.

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In concert

What: Little Big Town, with David Nail opening

When: : 3 p.m. Sunday, Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St.

Tickets: $52.35 through Ticketmaster

The turning point for Little Big Town and its fourth member, Fairchild's husband, Jimi Westbrook, came with a different approach to their music with its fifth album. They sought a more organic sound by enlisting their touring band in the studio.

“Less thinking, more singing” was kind of like their slogan.

“I think 'edge' is a word that gets overused,” Fairchild said in a statement. “But this record does have a raw edge to it.”

“It has a really different vibe to it,” Westbrook added. “It doesn't sound like anything else on the radio right now.”

Known for rich harmonies and multiple lead vocals, the band's previous Top 10 singles include “Boondocks,” “Bring It on Home” and “Little White Church.”

The roots of Little Big Town stretch back to the late 1990s, when Georgia natives Schlapman and Fairchild began singing together at Samford University in Alabama.

After moving to Nashville, they were joined by Westbrook to form a trio.

“Kimberly's voice has a pure tone and a bluegrass quality to it, so we thought, 'If we could find a guy who sounded like he smoked all day, that would be great,' ” Fairchild told Country Weekly. “We were looking for this gravelly, blue-eyed soul singer.”

They found Sweet, who joined them in 1998.

Little Big Town, which released its debut single, “Don't Waste My Time,” in 2002, hit paydirt in 2005 with the album “The Road to Here,” which spawned four Top 20 songs and sold more than a million copies.